Bad news for sheep farmers in Jersey, who have sick sheep, diagnosed with Schmallenberg. The Schmallenberg virus is apparently contracted through midges, and has no cure or vaccine. Watch this video at the BBC for more info:
The Schmallenberg virus has been found in sheep in Jersey, the States veterinary officer has said.
Linda Lowseck confirmed the virus was found in samples from a sheep flock...
How would you feel about a cheese with an epitaph imprinted on it? Resurrection cheese sported just such an inscription, and although it doesn't exist anymore, one wonders whether it was an easy sell at the market in its day:
Resurrection cheese is what resulted when a townsman of Llanfihangel Abercowyn, in the Carmarthen county of Welsh, wanted to make cheese but didn't have enough money for the proper equipment. He didn't make a deal with the devil in exchange for a...
We've seen it before when cows are let out after a long winter in the barn, but this video is particularly joyful. These cows are psyched!
With so much attention we've been giving the babies, it's good to see the mommies have a little fun, too!
Via the New York Times, we learn that a suit from the National Resource Defence Council, Union of Concerned Scientists and others has restarted a decades-long process of removing human antibiotics from use in commercial agriculture.
A federal magistrate judge on Thursday ordered the Obama administration to alert drug makers that...
Caprino Royale produces goat cheese on a farm outside of Waco, TX. Recently, however, their goat's milk cajeta has been stealing the show at high-end Dallas restaurants. Customers and chefs can't get enough of this sweet, tangy, caramel-like milk jam.
Tippit calls the cajeta a sleeper. “It caught us by surprise,” she says of its success. Now her husband, Eric, has just finished a separate cajeta room on their farm, where Tippit can have six pots going at a time without...
The Hunger Games, a book about starvation, has inspired a slew of recipes based on passages from the book. Emma Downs of The Journal Gazette has compiled a group of recipes in case you're looking for inspiration. She even tweaked a few to make them a bit more appetizing for those of us living in the pre-apocalyptic era. Glad to see that a goat cheese dish made the cut!
Goat cheese wrapped in...
To celebrate the opening of their third hybrid store, Publix Super Markets in Florida commissioned a 500 lb. cheese sculpture that was crafted in house by Sarah Kaufman of the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board.
The sculpture helped call attention to the full-service artisan cheese department a the new 56,000-square-foot hybrid concept store here in the chain’s Jacksonville, Fla., division. These cheese departments are a feature of all of the chain’s new hybrid stores and...
James Bertini, found of the Denver Urban Homesteading Market, recently ran into a problem while giving away samples of raw milk at his Denver location. Colorado law requires raw milk patrons to buy a share and sign a waiver with specific dairy farms before purchasing raw milk, but there's a gray area when it comes to handing out samples where no money is exchanged. The idea behind the sampling was to expose new consumers to the flavor of raw milk, but this didn't sit well with the Denver...
Tennessee's House Speaker Beth Harwell and Senate Speaker Ron Ramsey went head-to-head in a milk off on March 20 to celebrate Ag Day on capitol hill. We're not sure who the winner is, but love the creative way to honor dairy farmers!
'Tis the season for maple syrup, no matter how deceptively summerish it feels in the northeast. What better food to drizzle syrup over than a grilled cheese? Check out this recipe from Closet Cooking:
While I was in Montreal, a friend at Van Houtte coffee suggested something new, a grilled cheese sandwich served with maple syrup and as soon as I heard the idea, I knew that I...
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